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Beating breast cancer
Breast cancer affects one in every nine women during their lifetime in the UK and every year around 12,840 women die from the disease. Mother Linda Frew, has agreed to share her breast cancer story with others, to raise awareness of the disease and let others know that you can live with and beat breast…
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Tagged Breast cancer, Cancer, chemotherapy, Lumpectomy, Mammography, radiotherapy, Tamoxifen tablets, tumour
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My baby was born with eye cancer
Rachel Pennick, 40, a nursery nurse from Martlesham Heath near Ipswich, lives with her husband Tim, 45, who works in IT, and their son George, three. George was diagnosed with eye cancer just a few days after he was born. ‘When I fell pregnant with George at the age of 36 I was absolutely astounded. I’d only been married…
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Tagged Antibiotic, blood transfusions, Cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, childhood cancer, Endometriosis, eye cancer, George, Group B streptococcal, Jane, leukaemia, nursery nurse, Ocular oncology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Rachel Pennick, Radiation oncology, Radiation therapy, radiotherapy, Retinoblastoma, same cancer, secondary cancers, Tim, tumours
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Ovaries on ice
A medical breakthrough has brought new hope to young women who face having their ovaries removed. Young women with cancer may not only have to come to terms with having the disease, but may also have to make the heartbreaking decision to have chemotherapy treatment – which causes irreparable damage to their ovaries, leaving them…
Woman Expecting Twins From Frozen Egg
A British woman is pregnant with twins conceived from a frozen egg. The pregnancy is the UK’s first twin pregnancy following revolutionary fertility treatment, scientists have revealed. The 36-year-old, who wants to remain anonymous, is said to be five months through a “normal and healthy pregnancy” despite scientific concerns over the pioneering deep-freeze technology. One…
Three sisters make a baby
24th October 2005 A woman left infertile after cancer treatment has had a baby thanks to her two sisters. Baby Charlie was born healthy after sisters Charlotte and Helen offered to help their sister Alex when she became infertile after chemotherapy. Alex was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 28 and after successful treatment…
A baby after 21 years in deep freezer
A baby after 21 years in deep freezer A couple have given birth to a baby from sperm frozen 21 years ago. Medical experts believe this sets a world record for the oldest sperm successfully used for IVF treatment. They used a technique called Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) which involves injecting a single sperm directly into an egg to ensure…
Hope for preserving fertility
Scientists have discovered a way of preventing premature menopause in women being treated for cancer. Currently, many chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments for cancer aimed at the pelvic area, have the side effect of accelerating the onset of menopause in young women. But, according to research published in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists have found a way of preserving…
